Director, Campus Leadership Program

About the role

The Holdsworth Center is a non-profit organization founded and largely funded by Charles Butt, Chairman of H-E-B, a regional retail company. Our mission is to impact, over time, the quality of K-12 public education for all Texas students by supporting and developing leaders. Based in Austin, Texas, we were founded in 2017 in honor of Charles' mother, Mary Elizabeth Holdsworth Butt, who was an educator, a philanthropist, and a lifelong pioneering advocate. We partner with public school districts to help them grow outstanding leaders at all levels so that staff thrive, and students excel in every classroom.

Responsibilities

• Lead, supervise, and support the continuous improvement of the Campus Leadership Program, incorporating lessons learned from prior cohorts and drawing on evaluation data to strengthen curriculum and coaching.
• Drive strong systems and processes for curriculum and coaching review cycles, ensuring that key stakeholders—including participants, faculty, and district partners—have meaningful input.
• Use data to drive programmatic decisions, identifying what is working and where adjustments are needed to better achieve outcomes for campus leaders.
• Manage program delivery on time and on budget, anticipating risks and removing barriers before they affect participant experience.
• Serve as a primary faculty member for the Campus Leadership Program, facilitating learning experiences that deepen leadership understanding and strengthen program coherence.
• Partner with and co-facilitate alongside expert external faculty, leveraging a broad professional network to bring diverse expertise to CLP participants.
• Recruit and oversee contract facilitators and faculty, ensuring managing scope and deliverables to ensure alignment with program goals and consistently high facilitation quality.
• Foster a psychologically safe and collaborative learning environment where principals and their teams can engage deeply, take risks, and build capacity for sustainable campus improvement.
• Build and sustain an engaged, results-driven team culture where high expectations are paired with genuine investment in each person’s success.
• Lead, coach, and support a team of Lead Learning Designers and Lead Coaches, ensuring every team member thrives in their role and grows toward their goals.
• Engage and retain a strong network of contract facilitators and coaches who support campus teams and provide coaching to principals during the program’s first year.
• Ensure all program components integrate into a coherent and powerful arc of learning that builds leadership capacity across the two-year program.
• Collaborate with Lead Learning Designers and Lead Coaches to design and revise learning materials and experiences based on adult-learning principles, research-backed methodologies, program principles and priorities, and feedback from participants.
• Adapt and differentiate program components to meet the diverse needs of campus leaders across Texas.
• Serve as a leader on the broader Campus Programs team, contributing to program strategy and supporting delivery across programs as needed.
• Work closely with members of the Learning & Impact team to ensure evaluation approaches are integrated into the CLP and that findings inform continuous improvement.
• Support the overall mission and strategy of The Holdsworth Center, contributing to organizational priorities that extend beyond the Campus Leadership Program.

Qualifications

• Strong alignment with organizational values—Drive for Excellence for Every Student, Be of Service, Believe in People.
• Demonstrated commitment to and engagement in learning and actions that promote excellent outcomes for every student.
• Experience as a principal or district-level leader, with a track record of success in excellent student outcomes.
• Experience designing and delivering high-quality adult learning and leadership development programs, with deep familiarity with schools, principals, and the challenges of campus leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a team of individual contributors, including experience with coaching, feedback, and empowering others to do their best work.
• Stand-out facilitation skills with strong presence to engage campus and district-level leaders in meaningful, challenging, and growth-oriented learning experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop our Lead Coaches, and set quality standards for the work of contract coaches— with a strong grasp of what effective coaching looks like in the context of school leadership.
• Ability to create coherent, long-term strategy and combine strategic thinking with the hands-on execution needed.

Skills

• Creative, innovative thinker who brings fresh thinking about leadership development and school improvement—with a drive to ensure Holdsworth programs are distinct and deliver exceptional value.
• Highly collaborative with the ability to build strong relationships across a team and organization, and credibility with school leaders, external faculty, and partner districts.
• Exceptional receptivity to feedback, motivated by a deep learning mindset and a commitment to continuously improving the quality of participant experiences.

Pay

Salary range: $120,000 to $135,000

Schedule

This is a full-time, hybrid role that is Austin-based, generally requiring three days per week on campus. Ability to be on campus frequently for program sessions, which may include early mornings, late evenings, and occasional weekends. Ability to travel (up to 10%) for program delivery and partner district engagement.